Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Mathias Cormann
Minister for Finance
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 27 February 2016 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
1 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert in its appropriate numerical position:
140 | Dementia and Aged Care Services Fund | To do the following: (a) enable older people with dementia, or who are at risk of dementia, to access appropriate aged care services; (b) enable older people with diverse social and cultural needs who are sick to access appropriate aged care services; (c) provide aged care services that are specifically targeted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People; (d) strengthen the capacity of the health and aged care sectors to provide services to older people with dementia, or who are at risk of dementia, including people experiencing behavioural and psychological symptoms that are extreme or very severe; (e) provide support for the health and aged care sectors using online or other technology platforms; (f) support reform, including by way of structural change, in the aged care sector so that medical services are available to older people who: (i) are sick; or (ii) are experiencing or living with a medical condition; (g) undertake activities for the purpose of the Commonwealth informing itself about aged care or matters relating to aged care. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to: (a) providing unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services and family allowances; or (b) providing assistance to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws; or (c) providing assistance or undertaking activities using postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services; or (d) engaging in measures to meet Australia’s international obligations, including under either or both of the following: (i) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 25, 26 and 28; (ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Article 12; or (e) undertaking activities in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth. |